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| Genre/Form: | Audiobooks collection Audiobooks |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Lih; Jimmy Wales; Arthur Lloyd James; Tantor Media. |
| ISBN: | 9781400110766 1400110769 9781400140763 1400140765 |
| OCLC Number: | 318792485 |
| Notes: | Title from container. Unabridged. Compact discs. Duration: 9:30:00. |
| Performer(s): | Read by Lloyd James. |
| Description: | 8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents: | The wiki phenomenon. History -- A nupedia. What is an encyclopedia? ; Alabama rising ; The mother of all directories ; RMS ; Linux on the scene ; Remember DMOZ ; The Nupedia idea ; Nupedia's rules ; The Nupedians -- Wiki origins. Ward's start ; HyperCard's inspirations ; A web browser ; Viola ; HyperCard revisited -- Wiki introduced. Slashdotting ; Contributing the meaning of everything ; The GFDL ; UseMod grows ; Give me more space ; Server load -- Community at work (the piranha effect). Usenet's legacy ; Lessons from Usenet ; Growth ; How Wikipedia works ; Urban jungle ; Signaling one another ; Then came the bots ; Lots of red dots ; Peer production ; Dot map obsession ; Essays, guidelines, and policy ; Fix it yourself ; What to include ; Gaming the vote ; Small ball ; Gdansk/Danzig wars -- Wikipedia goes international. To split or not to split ; Spanish Wikipedia fork ; Making it multilingual ; Encoding language ; A colossal waste of space ; Japanese Wikipedia ; German Wikipedia ; Chinese Wikipedia ; Serbian Wikipedia and Kazakh Wikipedia ; African languages ; The numbers game -- Trolls, vandals, and sock puppets, oh my. Vandals and sock puppets ; Jimbo doesn't scale -- Crisis of community. Criticisms ; The Seigenthaler Incident ; The Essjay Controversy -- Wikipedia makes waves. JewWatch ; Microsoft Encarta's experiment ; Wikitorials ; Nature study ; Britannica goes free and collaborative ; Digital Universe and Citizendium ; The future ; To the afterword. |
| Responsibility: | Andrew Lih ; foreword by Jimmy Wales. |
Abstract:
Andrew Lih reveals Wikipedia's immense growth and astounding success. Chronicling the evolution of the world's most successful online encyclopedia, Lih recalls humorous anecdotes on the daily facets of a Wiki administrator.
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